"Trish Wainright, you owe us an explanation!"
"That's right! If you hadn't sworn up and down that we'd never lose a dime, would we have put in that kind of money?!"
"You liar, give us back our hard-earned money right now!"
Surrounded by extended family jabbing fingers in her face and hurling insults, even someone as tough as Trish looked drained.
"Listen to me, there's nothing I can do about this!" she protested, on the verge of tears herself.
True, she hadn't put up any of the $2.8 million herself. But greasing palms and pulling strings to secure that partner slot had cost her close to a million dollars of her own money. And now all she had to show for it was this mess.
After a full night of news spreading, Panacean Pharmaceuticals had become a public pariah. The shares she held wer
